January 2007

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Dear Friends,
We are moving into the hi-tech arena as we purchased a digit camera and are using that to record our ministry here in Korea. Yong Hui and I have not taken as many photos as we should have in our lives (although once I did take 30 minutes of the ground when I thought I turned off the Beta camera we bought in Korea in 1984) and this will be an adjustment for us. I also have the website for our school and for our blog page.
I hope you enjoy seeing a serious Min because he is much more fun loving. We are working our way through a discipleship series called MILK to remind us that a new Christian needs milk before he or she can move on to meat. (Unavailable for now)
We spend the first part of January starting off the 2nd Semester and the second part preparing for our Spiritual Emphasis Week that starts on 29 Jan 07. I will cover the week in my February newsletter and ask you to pray for it as we will begin shortly after you receive this.
God reminded us of His Words in James 4:15, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that” as we were traveling to and from Colorado. Our plan was that we would fly from Seoul to San Francisco to Denver. Instead we flew to San Francisco and rented a car to drive to Colorado Springs because the Denver airport was closed because of snow. Our return plan was to fly from Denver to San Fran to Seoul. Instead we flew from Denver to San Fran to Las Vegas to Seoul because snow delayed us leaving Denver enough to miss our connection to Seoul. Did I mention that our luggage was delayed by 2 days?
We (or at least Yong Hui did and I slept though it) had a 4.8 earthquake on Saturday to remind us Psalm 46.
Our youth put on an evening service at the Uijongbu Baptist Church and one of my science students, Bobby wrote the skit that they did entitled, “No Man Can Serve Two Masters.” He wrote two more for the Spiritual Emphasis Week and I can hardly wait to see them.
The praise team is back in gear and has been making a joyful noise unto the Lord during the Wednesday chapel services.
I am confident that we will have a good semester and year.
Please pray for:
• Open hearts (teachers and students) to receive the message of the Spiritual Emphasis Week. Some need to receive Christ as personal savior, some need to walk in obedience to Christ, and some need to make commitments to Christian Service.
• Students to make commitments to be holy during the Purity Seminar on 1 Feb 07.
• For Yong Hui in her ladies Bible Study which is now called the Hodos Group (Greek for The Way) (Much better than the Korean Mafia).
• For me as I lead the Chapel on 7 Feb. My theme will be from Josh McDowell’s book Right from Wrong as I drive home some of the reasons that we do what we do as Christians.
• Pray for Tammy who has some major decisions to make.
• Pray for Jason who is still looking for a permanent job.
• Pray for our seniors who are busily seeking colleges to attend. Pray they will have patience as they wait. Several are still taking SAT tests or SAT-II. Some of the juniors have started to take these tests.
• We have at least two teachers in-bound for next year. Pray for Julie and Rich as they prepared to teach Kindergarten and High School History.
• Pray for our Experiencing God Sunday School class.
• Pray for the Wild At Heart Men’s Group at Camp Red Cloud and lift up all the chapel staff of the 2nd Infantry Division.